Essay About Math

As I began reviewing literature on math talks, I came to find many terms that are synonymous with math talk. Math discussions, discourse, talk moves, and argumentation are among several terms I encountered. All of these, I found to have the same goal: to get all students involved. To give them opportunities to think, communicate, and reason their ideas. Classroom Environment The stage must first be set to provide an environment so students feel safe in sharing their ideas. They need a…

Growing up dyslexic, math was never a strong subject for me. The public schools I attended never knew what to do with me. Most of my teachers that I had would recommend that I should placed in a lower level math class or special education. This put me behind in math classes when I decided to attend a junior college after high school. I have always liked math, I just tended to learn it slower than the average student. Being placed in lower level math classes, because I was a slower learner,…

Math is all around, weather you notice it or not. Doctors use math on the daily to prescribe medicine that patients might need, check vitals, and see how hurt a patient may be. Math is very important and is needed in order for doctors to do their job. First off, doctors use math everyday to prescribe medicine to patients. In “ Medicine and math” Natasha Glydon states “Doctors need to figure out how many milligrams of medicine each patient will need, depending on their weight.” Doctors must use…

In both of these peer-reviewed articles, the authors discuss the standards for math in the common core and the problems that derived from them. In the article ‘Too Much Too Soon? Common Core Math Standards in the Early Years’ by Laura Fricke Main, she discusses standards in the common core, the promises of the standards, criticism of the standards, standards and assessment, and standards and young children. She stated that the final revision of the standards were a result of the general public,…

Officer, Math will come in handy when having to keep up with the amount of payments due for each probationer. If I was unfamiliar in Math altogether, I would be unable to calculate simple problems such as counting balances and change and so forth. Currently, as a Postal Worker, Math plays an indirect role in my daily job. Numbers make up math and each address is a number therefore, I am able to differentiate between addresses and better understand the sequence of numbers. So, not only do I use…

lot of them think about the math that actually goes into it. This paper outlines and gives examples of how math is used every day in police work. When asking students what they think about math many will say that it’s boring, or that they will never use it in life. Math may seem very different from the unpredictable and highly relevant business of fighting crime, but in fact math is very relevant to determining the truth of what happened during a crime. The use of math is essential to many of…

I, in my time's past, was subjected to an accusation of plagiarism on a mathematics test. This not only brought down my grades horrifically, but made fear and disgrace fill my body. For the extended period of a month, I was despotic toward myself. No matter the effort that I had placed into my work, I couldn't evade the ever so gradually amplifying fear that my grade would never advance once more. Ascending through the diverse grade percentages was an overbearing task to accomplish, but I…

loving or hating math. The way math is introduced and applied must be engaging with real life connections in order to be meaningful. One of the challenges I faced during both interactions was that the Plan of Actions were a guide but I had do make some modifications to meet the students’ learning level and style. The kindergarten student liked to use manipulatives but the 3rd grade student did not.…

I observed the Jr. High math teacher Mr. Rix. This is Mr. Rix’s first year at St. Lucy but he been teaching for about 15 years. I observed an 8th grade block class period. How is the room organized? This teacher is in a unique situation. He does not have a homeroom instead he travels around from room to room. This means that he has to be extra organized because all his resource materials are at his desk in the art room. I asked him about how he keeps himself organized and he had a few…

add find the total and write the math sentence, and two problems with two given numbers that students were expected to draw and add to find the total and complete the math sentence. During this pre-assessment, I explained the vocabulary and reread the directions…